Um, am I at Cambridge or Burning Man?  Who says steampunk is just for thirty-six year-old Linux admins with male-pattern receding dreadlocks?  (Oh.  That was me.  But this clock is cool. Was the point I started to make.)  This design is ingenious in more ways than I can blog about without wanting to retire in deference.

The functioning Chronophage clock was designed, built and funded (to the tune of $1.83 million) by philanthropist/inventor/Cambridge alum John Taylor and is currently hanging at the (not-coincidentally named) Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College Cambridge.  The face is a single five-foot sheet of gold-plated stainless steel shaped in part by controlled explosions.  There are 2,736 LEDs that are always on and revealed by three idependently-rotating perforated steel rings.

The project website is here: www.chronophage.co.uk but you can actually get more design details by googling for wowed geeks.